Diana Fuss

{{short description|American scholar of literature}}

Diana Fuss is a professor of literature, film and feminist studies. She serves as Louis W. Fairchild Class of ‘24 Professor of English at Princeton University, New Jersey, United States.{{Cite web|title=Diana Fuss {{!}} Department of English|url=https://english.princeton.edu/people/diana-fuss|access-date=2020-12-06|website=english.princeton.edu}}

Fuss earned her PhD in English and Semiotics from Brown University, Rhode Island, in 1988 and then joined the Princeton faculty.

Her book The Sense of an Interior won the MLA James Russell Lowell Prize for outstanding scholarly book of the year. Her edited collection Inside/Out won both the ALA and VLS best book awards.

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Works

  • Essentially Speaking (Routledge, 1989){{cite journal |last1=Webster |first1=Duncan |title=Diana Fuss, Essentially Speaking: Feminism, Nature and Difference (London: Routledge, 1990, £30.00, £7.99 paper). Pp. 144. ISBN 0 415 90133 2. |journal=Journal of American Studies |year=1992 |volume=26 |issue=1 |pages=129–130 |doi=10.1017/S0021875800030565 |s2cid=145173604 |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-american-studies/article/abs/diana-fuss-essentially-speaking-feminism-nature-and-difference-london-routledge-1990-3000-799-paper-pp-144-isbn-0-415-90133-2/2464DBB5D6B96E8AEA034349A065FEA3 |access-date=6 December 2020 |language=en |issn=1469-5154}}{{cite journal|last1=Chay|first1=Deborah G.|date=Summer 1991|title="Diana Fuss", Essentially Speaking: Feminism, Nature, and Difference (Book Review) - ProQuest|url=https://www.proquest.com/openview/f8f41a6711a73d686175e1bb3672a69c/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=1816470|journal=Diacritics|language=en|volume=21|issue=2|pages=135|doi=10.2307/465195 |jstor=465195 |access-date=6 December 2020}}{{Cite web|last=Miner|first=Madonna M.|date=August 31, 1992|title=Essentially Speaking: Feminism, Nature and Difference. By Diana Fuss - ProQuest|url=https://www.proquest.com/openview/b7e0e4ef446c6b6cd7453e6793acc39c/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=32658|access-date=2020-12-06|website=Journal of Men’s Studies|page=78|language=en}}
  • ed. Inside/Out: Lesbian Theories, Gay Theories (Routledge, 1991){{Cite journal|last=Namaste|first=Ki|date=1994|title=The Politics of Inside/Out: Queer Theory, Poststructuralism, and a Sociological Approach to Sexuality|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/201866|journal=Sociological Theory|volume=12|issue=2|pages=220–231|doi=10.2307/201866|jstor=201866 |issn=0735-2751}}
  • Identification Papers (Routledge, 1995)
  • The Sense of an Interior: Four Writers and the Rooms that Shaped Them (Routledge, 2004)
  • Dying Modern: A Meditation on Elegy (Duke UP, 2013){{Cite journal|last=MAJUMDAR|first=GAURAV|date=2015|title=Review of Dying Modern: A Meditation on Elegy, FussDiana|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/26254736|journal=The Comparatist|volume=39|pages=389–399|jstor=26254736 |issn=0195-7678}}{{Cite journal|last=Gilbert|first=Sandra M.|date=2014|title=Dying Modern: A Meditation on Elegy by Diana Fuss (review)|url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/565211|journal=Literature and Medicine|language=en|volume=32|issue=2|pages=486–492|doi=10.1353/lm.2014.0025|s2cid=142113589 |issn=1080-6571}}{{Cite journal|last=Landeira|first=Joy|date=2014|title=Review of Dying Modern: A Meditation on Elegy|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/24372831|journal=Rocky Mountain Review|volume=68|issue=2|pages=216–218|jstor=24372831 |issn=1948-2825}}{{Cite journal|last=Nesme|first=Axel|date=2015-02-01|title=Diana Fuss, Dying Modern: A Meditation on Elegy|url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/678522|journal=Modern Philology|volume=112|issue=3|pages=E266–E271|doi=10.1086/678522|s2cid=163905004 |issn=0026-8232}}
  • ed. Human, All Too Human (Selected Essays of the English Institute)
  • ed. Pink Freud
  • ed. with William A. Gleason, The Pocket Instructor: Literature (Princeton University Press, 2015)

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